Ben: It’s just a little after 6. But if you’re not in time you can just go make offerings at the temple. Don’t give up on your intention.

พลอย ขอบคุณมากพ่อ แค่นี้นะคะ พลอยยังจะรีบไปตักบาตร

Ben: Thank you very much, Dad. That’s all, OK? I still want to hurry and go offer food.

พ่อ ครับๆ สวัดดีครับ

Ben: OK, OK. Goodbye.

POST CONVERSATION BANTER

Ben: Hey Khru Jing, it sounds like Ploy is really struggling to wake up early enough to offer food to the monks.

Jing: Yeah, you really have to get up pretty early to do that. But it’s not so hard to do. In the old days, people would wake up super early and cook food especially for the monks, but these days it is much easier.

Ben: How is it easier?

Jing: You can just go near the market, or on certain streets where people know the monks will go. There you can find tables with food already cooked. Each set is about 20 baht and usually includes some cooked rice and a few curries or other dishes.

Ben: Do you just pour it all into the monk’s bowl?

Jing: Well, they used to do it more like that in the old days, but now all the different dishes come in little plastic bags. I know it’s not the best thing for the environment to use so much plastic.

Ben: But at least you are doing a good deed by supporting the monks.

Jing: That’s right!

Ben: OK, now let’s take a look at the vocabulary.

VOCAB LIST

Ben: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.

The first word we shall see is:

Jing: โทร [natural native speed]

Ben: to call on the phone

Jing: โทร [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: โทร [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: ตั้งใจ [natural native speed]

Ben: to intend, to pay attention

Jing: ตั้งใจ [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ตั้งใจ [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: อวยพร [natural native speed]

Ben: to bless, to wish well

Jing: อวยพร [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: อวยพร [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: ตักบาตร [natural native speed]

Ben: to offer food to monks

Jing: ตักบาตร [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ตักบาตร [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: สังฆทาน [natural native speed]

Ben: offerings for Buddhist monks

Jing: สังฆทาน [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: สังฆทาน [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: ความตั้งใจ [natural native speed]

Ben: intention, determination

Jing: ความตั้งใจ [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ความตั้งใจ [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: วันเกิด [natural native speed]

Ben: birthday

Jing: วันเกิด [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: วันเกิด [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: ตื่น [natural native speed]

Ben: to wake up

Jing: ตื่น [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ตื่น [natural native speed]

Next:

Jing: ทัน [natural native speed]

Ben: in time, on time, to catch up with

Jing: ทัน [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ทัน [natural native speed]

And Last:

Jing: ถวาย [natural native speed]

Ben: to offer

Jing: ถวาย [slowly - broken down by syllable]

Jing: ถวาย [natural native speed]

KEY VOCABULARY AND PHRASES

Ben: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.

Jing: The first phrase we’ll look at is....

Jing: ฮัลโหล han-lǒo

Ben: This is simply the Thai pronunciation of the English greeting “Hello”.

Jing: Yeah, that’s right. We usually use this when answering the telephone.

Ben: Alright, what’s the next phrase?

Jing: โทรมา thoo maa

Ben: This means “to call” or “to phone”.

Jing: โทร thoo comes from the word for “telephone”, โทรศัพท์ thoo-rá-sàp. And มา maa is the verb “to come”. It shows the direction of the action is moving towards the speaker.

Ben: I see. So it’s like saying “to phone in”.

Jing: Yes, that’s pretty much what it means.

Ben: Well what if you are not phoning in? What if you were “calling out”?

Jing: Oh, in that case you use the verb ไป bpai, meaning “to go” instead. Then you have the phrase โทรไป thoo-bpai.

Ben: And that means “to phone out”.

Jing: Right.

Ben: And the next phrase is...

Jing: ตายจริง dtaai jing

Ben: This is just an interjection showing surprise like “Oh my God!”, “Oh no!”, or “What on earth!”

Jing: Yeah, something like that.

Ben: And what is the last phrase we want to look at?

Jing: อย่าให้เสียความตั้งใจ yàa hâi sǐia khwaam-dtâng-jai

Ben: This means “Don’t give up on your intention.”

Jing: Exactly. อย่าให้ yàa hâi means “don’t let”, and เสีย sǐia means “to be spoiled” or “to be ruined”. Then the last word, ความตั้งใจ khwaam-dtâng-jai, is a noun meaning “intention” or “determination”.

Ben: So the whole phrase gives us “Don’t allow your intention to be ruined.”

Jing: Right.

Ben: OK, now let’s move on to the grammar section.

Lesson focus

Ben: The focus of this lesson is ตั้งใจ dtâng-jai used to mean "intend to".

Ben: Jing, how does ตั้งใจ dtâng-jai get used in a sentence?

Jing: It will usually be followed by some other verb to show what action is intended.

Ben: OK, so we’ll have ตั้งใจ dtâng-jai followed by another verb. How about giving us an example?

Jing: Alright. In the conversation Ploy’s father said...ก็พ่อตั้งใจจะโทรมาอวยพรวันเกิดให้ลูก

Thank you very much for your comment and question. กว่า in this sentence means " a little after" so 6 โมงกว่า means " a little after six". Hope that's help. Please let me know if you have any questions. I will bad glad to help you. We wish you have a good progress with Thai.

Have a nice weekend.

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Martin​

Friday at 10:36 pm

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สวัสดี​ครับ

in the sentence "แค่ 6 โมงกว่าเองลูก" l​ do not completely understand the usage of กว่า. Could you please explain?

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Martin​

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Hello John,

Very good. Thank you very much for joined our lesson activity. For this context we do not use สุดท้าย because we just talk about normal activity not things contrast so we put แล้วก็ to connect them at the end. ฉันตั้งใจตื่นเช้าดื่มกาแฟร้อนอาบน้ำ แล้วก็ไปทำงาน สุดท้าย will be use if you "intend to do those activity but not get to do them, so ฉันตั้งใจตื่นเช้าดื่มกาแฟร้อนอาบน้ำแล้วก็ไปทำงาน สุดท้ายก็ตื่นสายเกือบไปทำงานไม่ทัน So สุดท้าย is mostly use in a sense of "finally or eventually". Hope that's help. Please let me know if you have any questions. I will bad glad to help you. We wish you have a good progress with Thai.

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John

Monday at 12:26 am

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ฉันตั้งใจตื่นเช้าดื่มกาแฟร้อนแล้วก็อาบน้ำ สุดท้ายไปทำงาน

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Hi Holly,

ด้วยความยินดีค่ะ

สวัสดีค่ะ

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Holly

Sunday at 3:17 pm

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Oh, that's interesting! I hadn't looked at it like that. ขอบคุณมากค่ะคุณครู

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Wednesday at 2:10 pm

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Hello Holly,

Thank you very much for your comment. For your question, the reason why father said that is because he is talking right to his daughter on the phone. He will said ไปหา if his daughter doesn't answer the phone at the first place, then his daughter called back and ask why did you called, he will say ก็พ่อตั้งใจจะโทรไปอวยพรวันเกิดให้ลูก

Hope that help. Please let me know if you have any questions. I will be glad to help.

Have a nice day.

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Holly

Monday at 3:10 pm

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I'm a little bit confused about one of the lines of dialogue and what the teachers said about it. The line is:

ก็พ่อตั้งใจจะโทรมาอวยพรวันเกิดให้ลูก

พ่อ says he wanted to โทรมา Ploy, but in the lesson, the teachers say that you should use โทรไป to indicate that the call is directed away from the speaker, and โทรมา for toward the speaker. Because พ่อ is speaking, shouldn't he have said ก็พ่อตั้งใจจะโทรไปอวยพรวันเกิดให้ลูก?

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